Knot IV, from the series Diagonal Force, 2019.
About the series
Even though it involves action during an era in which "the public realm has lost the power to enlighten", it aims to supersede this situation in order to reflect upon the human condition of understanding action as thought, and thought as a faculty of the individual that can only be realized in relation to one another.
Diagonal Force (2019) is an ongoing series intertwining different mediums and materials to revisit the exploration that started in the video installation Everything Out There (2004), in which a group of disparate people struggle to occupy a single space while holding each other back every time one of them threatens to give up the struggle. The subjectivity of those engaging in this action enters into tension with the abyss of everything that (in spite of them) remains outside.
In the image we see bodies modulating over tensions that are simultaneously activated in themselves and in others.
The materiality of the work brings into play the metaphorical potential of sources that refer to the pictorial tradition, photography and the moving image.
The title of the series, Diagonal Force, alludes to the concept proposed by Hannah Arendt, interweaving a repertoire of actions that play out at the point of collision between the past, which has an uncertain origin, and a future with a trajectory that is as infinite as it is unknown.
Thus, pointing to the present moment as the only circumstance.
Works
Exhibitions
Premio Trabucco nuevos medios. Fundación Federico Klemm, Buenos Aires, 2020
A volte pensó che… Prometeo Gallery, Lucca, Italia, 2020
Premio Federico Jorge Klemm a las Artes Visuales. Fundación Federico Klemm, Buenos Aires, 2020
Fuerza diagonal. Domo lleno, Planetario de Bogotá, Colombia, 2019
Press
Credits
- Performers: Brenda Guidetti and Teresa Sevilla
- Choreography direction: Cecilia Bazán
- Production and coordination: Mayra Ferreyra Basso
- Assistance in the production of materials: Cecilia Paganini